Water for the Recovery of the Climate

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Not even a single raindrop should be allowed to flow intő the sea without it first having been used for the benefit ofthepeople... King Parakramabahu the Great of Sri Lanka (1153 - 1186) In his groundbreaking book, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes ofthe Wealth ofNations, Adam Smith introduced the example of smiths who, even with the greatest of effort, could not make more than one pin per day. The di vision of labour increased production of pins twenty-fold and simple machines many thousand-fold, so that what was once a luxury item soon became available to even the poorest of families. This book is concerned primarily with the importance and origin of the wealth of water on land. Its ambition is to change the current practice of draining water from large areas of land, a process caused by deforestation, agricultural activities and the sluicing of rainwater out of cities. The draining of land means decreasing evaporation, the transforming of solar radiation into sensible heat... Tovább

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Not even a single raindrop should be allowed to flow intő the sea without it first having been used for the benefit ofthepeople... King Parakramabahu the Great of Sri Lanka (1153 - 1186) In his groundbreaking book, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes ofthe Wealth ofNations, Adam Smith introduced the example of smiths who, even with the greatest of effort, could not make more than one pin per day. The di vision of labour increased production of pins twenty-fold and simple machines many thousand-fold, so that what was once a luxury item soon became available to even the poorest of families. This book is concerned primarily with the importance and origin of the wealth of water on land. Its ambition is to change the current practice of draining water from large areas of land, a process caused by deforestation, agricultural activities and the sluicing of rainwater out of cities. The draining of land means decreasing evaporation, the transforming of solar radiation into sensible heat and a change in the great flows of energy in the area. This has an impact on the circulation of water on land and a rise in extreme weather events. The authors of this publication see a solution to these problems in relatively simple rainwater harvesting and water conservation measures, the kind that people in different parts of the world applied for hundreds or even thousands of years. They served for the acquiring of new sources of water and are often identical to flood prevention and anti-erosion measures. With widespread use, they can multiply the amount of water which can be used by people, nature and manufacturing; at the same time, they can temper micro- and macroclimatic problems caused by the drainage of land and thus contribute to the recovery of the climate. The panel of authors, who all come from an environment of non-governmental organizations, offer this book to anyone involved with water and its management as well as to public sector institutions and priváté investors, and more or less every single citizen of our planet. Vissza